When Loss Brings a Gift

When Loss Brings a Gift

Best-selling novelist Isabel Allende discovers the great gift of giving through the loss of her beloved daughter.

By Isabel Allende

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my twenty-eight-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.